Deaf and blind can communicate on the web

Love for the human being and respect for persons with disabilities, was the engine that inspired the Colombian Jorge Enrique Leal Rodriguez to create a virtual program for education and social inclusion of the deaf and blind, project made him deserve innovative America 2011, in the Education category Award.

the initiative is part of the fruit which has given the Foundation for the development of technological tools for humanitarian aid (Hetah Foundation), an entity non-profit that you created in the year 2007 for research and development of new technologies to overcome the problems of humanity.

the program includes the Spanish to sign language translator, dictionary of sign to Spanish, ABCs of signs, interactive books, Transcriber of text to braille, virtual tools for education, readers of news and web pages for blind people, offers of u000ajobs.

of Spanish the sign language translator is a single instrument on the Internet, which can analyze a sentence in Spanish and try to perform a translation to sign language. With this tool anyone can translate their sentences to the native language of people with disabilities anywhere in the world.

Dictionary of signs to the Spanish contains a few thousand expressions, but its creator assures that a 24,000 words, amount which aspires to reach are required in order to have a conversation.

to participate in the breakfast of LISTÍN DIARIO with the creators of America innovators award, the Colombian Gustavo Sorzano and Dominican Felipe Pagés, as well as the winners of the other categórías, Leal Rodriguez spoke widely of your innovative project and its impact on the world.

Innovative America 2011, in the Education category Award winner, was interviewed u000aby the director of LISTÍN DIARIO, Miguel Franjul, and publisher of La Republica, Fernando Quiroz. section

to refer to the impact of your innovative project, Leal RODRIGUEZ said that the website of the Hetah Foundation which operates in Bogotá, Colombia, recorded some 800 visits a day, for a total of 14 thousand per month globally, and that more consultation people is translator.

"Thanks to you here in Bogota managed to meet some deaf children who came to the library to look for a book and did not know how to tell them or read them," he cited Leal Rodriguez to highlight some of the messages received after the creation of the virtual program, and noted that his challenge is to continue to develop those tools.

The idea
the initiative to create this program he came in 1996 when he received in an Office a deaf person who was asked by someone, but did not know or write and no one could understand him because they didn't know their u000asign.

Its prowess in the development of accounting, technical, operational programmes, led him to believe that their knowledge could be used for a Spanish language translator in sign for the deaf, which did not exist. It is not only a tool for people without hearing, but for society that seeks to understand them. Then became convinced that in order to make the inclusion it should be a free service like google, for all the world.

Contribution
La Fundación Hetah seeks to generously contribute expertise and initiatives, to identify, resolve and overcome the problems of mankind through research, development and application of technologies that transcend the differences.

this entity is based on the following principles and universal values: love for human beings, respect for differences, doing and act for the sake of the human being and his environment that is nature, recognize a u000auniversal power that inspires us to give the best of ourselves for the benefit of others, innovate and create for the people

Profile of JORGE ENRIQUE LEAL Rodriguez
Jorge Enrique Leal Rodriguez first studied in public institutions of Colombia, and lost his father at the age of 13 was the need for work and study to help with costs at home. With the support of his mother, he completed his secondary studies.

To a university career, alternated his performance as a musician with the work of Messenger in a hospital in Bogota, where he discovered his vocation for service. In 1997 he graduated from Universidad Manuela Beltrán systems engineer.

Later performed a specialization in information technology management in the school of business administration, and in 2008 began to study biomedical engineering at Universidad Manuela Beltrán.

The conviction, commitment and u000ahumanitarian responsibility, led to creating the Hetah Foundation: "Foundation for the development of tools technology for humanitarian aid". Where has developed tools that are available for free in the Internet portal www.hetah. NET as a personal, professional and social contribution to humanity.

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